Cathy Flanagan

Cathy Flanagan, a women's health nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama, said a "high number" of students at the school have inquired about and received the vaccine since last fall.

"It's a fairly high demand for the vaccine here and I imagine it's probably about the same across the board at other schools," she said, adding that the controversy hasn't been an issue.

This is also a concern of Cathy Flanagan, a women's health nurse practitioner.

"You can have false negative false positive and if the person is not savvy about the test they could come to the wrong conclusion and therefore go too long and perhaps, for example, a UTI can turn into a kidney infection if it's not caught in time," said Flanagan.

Though misreading test results is a concern of hers, Nurse Flanagan says she is not against patients using home tests.

"There's nothing wrong with doing a home test I'm not finding fault with a home test but I just feel like a home test needs to be backed up by a clinical test just for the added reassurance of peace of mind," said Flanagan.

Nurse Flanagan says suggesting a trip to the doctor after a home medical test is not discounting the reliability of the tests in general.

"A lot of my patients take home pregnancy tests and usually our clinical findings will reinforce what their answer or test result was," said Flanagan.
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Still only being approved by the FDA does not mean a test will give the correct answer 100% of the time, so Nurse Flanagan suggests you "follow the instructions explicitly if there is any discrepancy in what the symptoms are and what the test finds see a provider right away and don't take just the test result at face value get an additional opinion."